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US President Donald Trump gave a full pardon to a longtime friend who last year authored a glowing book about Trump's successes.

Conrad Black was convicted in 2007 on fraud charges, including alleged embezzlement, and obstruction of justice. He served more than three years in prison and was deported to his native Canada after he was released in 2012. He was barred from returning to the United States for 30 years.

The White House said in a statement that Black was "entirely deserving" of the pardon. In listing Black's accomplishments, it mentions biographies Black wrote about Presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt and Richard Nixon, but not his tome on Trump.

On the first page of that book, "Donald J. Trump: A President Like No Other," Black writes: "Like the country he represents, Donald Trump possesses the optimism to persevere and succeed, the confidence to affront tradition and convention, a genius for spectacle, and a firm belief in common sense and the common man."

"In 1990 or 1991, when I owed billions of dollars, some people shied away from me," Trump said. "And now everyone is kissing my ass and begging me to sit at their right-hand side at the table. Conrad is a tremendously strong man who will overcome these obstacles in the end. He will prevail."